Being the only two white people to begin had to be interesting. They attend Wilson High in room. They gave two similar but different points of view that lead to a theme, the theme being to tolerate others and understand them and their story. One teacher, another a student. Over time we come to see it how they seen it. In the beginning Mrs. Gruwell was determined to be the she could be. She didn’t dig deep enough to understand her students to start. As she began to consider their lives, she sees they are anything but perfect while reading their journals. As an example, she would have never guessed Eva’s father was in prison and she always has to look over her shoulder to make she isn’t in any danger. after learning all this information about her students, she began to work with them and tolerate them more. …show more content…
He didn’t belong to any of the groups in class and he wasn’t as smart as the rest of his friends. Over time everyone in room 203 began to open up and tolerate each other including Ben. Just like in Freedom Riders Ben wanted to prove to himself he could stay because even though he didn’t know these people personally at first, they hadn’t done anything to him so why leave and show your weak and can’t even stay in one class because the type of kid that are in there. In Bens speech he mentions he is somewhat like Jim Zwerg, he stood up for all those people on that bus and Ben stayed in the class with people on that could have been on that bus. He wasn’t going to leave because he was